Yügen

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Note of intent

This film represents my own exploration of a more violent and obscure cinema, now accompanied by professional actors and with a more complex script. This is my attempt to talk about the differences and similarities between two complicated and different societies: the Mexican and the Japanese that are also united by poetry and violence. What drives the film is love in all its forms and the mystery of the plot based on the crime of human trafficking, with mafia from two countries that are very similar but act according to different codes of honor.

Synopsis

Ichi is the eldest of two brothers and a member of the Yakuza mafia in Japan. He was sent to Mexico to start a human trafficking business in association with the Mexican mafia. Ichi disappears without a trace and is presumed dead, so his younger brother – outside of the mafia – travels to Tijuana where Ichi was seen for the last time.

Visual concept

Yügen is inspired by the Japanese film noir. Visually, poetry and violence will coexist in bringing characters to life and death. The characters are also designed to live between the daily life in Japan and Mexico, and this duality will be reflected by the camera, while Haiku will help metrically to support the rhythm of the montage. Tokyo and Tijuana – two nighttime cities – coexist in a new aesthetic that combines dark and bright places simultaneously, where characters will blend the northern Mexican culture with the new Yakuza mafia of Japan